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MISCELLANY.
I'ivrn tkt Family CamFMitH,
Til*’ lll'VDKI'l) DULLAII CLOAK, j
A HKU'iH,
Mr. Oi>)>i>rne overlook his wile at the door of their
fine house, just a the dinnei hour arrived. He was
healed and fatigued, hut she appeared to tie in the
highest spirits. As aoon as they were seated at the ta
ble, wilho it noticing the aerioua countenance of her
husband she exclaim tl—
..Why don’t you ask me where I have been, this
morning 1 ’
-You are so often out, tny dear, that I should he
more inclined to question what was the matter if you
ha l remained at home.”
r Mrs. 0., who had a point to gain, suppressed the
rietul int answer which rose to her lips, and with an
attempt at playfulness, rejoins I,
Well, il you won’t a-Y, I will tell you without ;
I have been shopping with Mrs. Kusscll, and we have
each bought a show I.”
“Ah! what kind of a shawl have you been pur
chasing now?” asked Mr. 0., with an air of interest.
“ Why ! have you not hotic and Warren's advertise
ment of splendid cashmeres! anew importation!’
returned Ills wife, “ they are the most elegant things
that have boon seen hie years; he made us pay well
for them too. but I was set upon having one of them
Nobody shall dress handsomer than ( do, 1 am deter
mined !”
Mr. Osbori.e looked confounded, hut lemained silent.
He could hardly persuade himself that his wife had in
■l been so utterly thoughtless, as to purchase so ex
>c a shawl, when she knew he was much pres-
S.l to meet bia payments. Hut he knew that Mrs.
t tsborne, who called herself a -‘ determined woman,”
si not to he easily baffled, mid as he was in no spirits
for a scene he made no reply. She therefore sent for
the s iawl as soon as he left the hou-e, w ith a note, thut
Mr. O. would call on the morrow and pay for it.
• • * • •
Mr. Osborne hod b en in business some years, and
bv industry ami prudence in the outset, had establish
ed liis credit and mode considerable money.
Among those who sought the acquaintance of the
rising young merchant, was Mr. Crosby. This gen
tleman had l een engaged in very heavy business, and
failed. As lie did not settle his old debts, except those
which hnd gone into execution, and which were com
promised through the medium of friends, he did not
attempt to renew his business as before, but enu red
into the commission business.
Being an active man. and well acquainted with mer
can tie affairs, Ins commissions amounted to a consu
mable sum yearly. Instead of practising economy,
however, ami paying off his debts, he lived in extrava
gmtee, sp,’tiding more money upon the dress of each of
his d.mg.iters, than some of his creditors expended
upon their entire lamiles. To his tradesmen, ns long
ns they continued his acocounts for family matters, he
was exceedingly affable, and full of promises to pay
shortly ; hut when an account was stopped, he never j
knew when lie could pay because, he never intended
la do so. If at any time it was intimated to him that
his expenses were greater titan those of other men with
similar families, he would draw himself up. and say,
“."ill, if you cannot wait till I have the money, the
courts arc open to yon ;’’ secretlv congratulating hini
s l when tic could goad a man into suing him, for he
w aal then say, •• As you have resorteJ to law to ob
tain your money, you may get it by the law. lam
ready at any time to • kiss the book.’” In this way
It ■ brought up bis family at the expense of others, giv
ing them an ornamental education, extravagant no
tions, and. was intimated, bestowing upon each of
them a considerable sum of money to keep os their
own.
It was Mi Osborne’s misfortune to fall in love with
the eldest daughter, and after a very short acquaintance
they were married. Fora lew years matters went on
smoothly. Mr. ()., engaged in a profitable business,
had no desire to check even the extravagance of the
wife he loved; but as the times changed, he met with
heavy lossrs. became embarrassed, and found it would
be necessary to curtail his family expenses as much as
possible. lipon stating the facts, und explaining hia
situation to his wife, instead of coinciding with h m,
•he replied,
••Now, I tell you what, Mr. Osborne, if you arc
going to fail, I intend to have a good stock of clothing
for myself and the children. I know what to do. When
father failed, mother bad two large cheats full of silks
nini muslins, and laces, and every thing else, and they
lasted till his credit got good again, besides making
him independent of any of the petty retailers.”
Mr. O. was amazed—this brought to his mind a cir
cumstance which had been mentioned in hia presence
by a lady before bis marriage; he had then believed it
was a slander, repeated from a malicious desire to break
off his engagement, but now, alas! he was convinced I
it was true—his wife was privy to what his moral sense
t.IJ hiut was downright swindling—but after a few
moments silence he spoke with as much calmness as
possible, hu| tog even yet that she might bo induced to
act rightly in future. Il was the first time that aught
in the shape of reproof had passed his lips.
“ Charlotte, do you not know that those chests of
silks and laces we e near bringing public und indelible
d.sgraee upon your father—that the shadow of reputa
tion was only ret..ined by what has always been be
lieved to be a falsehood on the part of your uncle
Gemge! At the time your father’s house caught fire
in the attic, in removing the furniture, the lids of the
cheats came off. and the articles were seen Ivy one of
his creditors. Your uncle, however, asserted that he
had given them to his sister, and, although few believ
ed it. and inanv of the creditors were dissatisfied, yet
the difficulty of obtaining positive pioof, alone prevent
ed prosecution. Il has always reuiaineJ a loul blot on
your father's character in the minds of all who were
acquainted with the circumstances. O, Charlotte,
could I have believed, tor a moment, that you were a
paity in the transaction? That you were even ac
quainted with it? Uad enough for your father to have
done this—
■ A nd so you are to throw in my face the vile slan
ders you hear about tny father, because I wish to be
decently clothed, if I have to go back to him with a
pack of young ones, and acknowledge I have been
foolish enough to marry a min who could not supjiort
me. I think “
••Charlotte I will not allow such talk as this. When
I give intimation of sending you to your father to live,
it will be time enough for you to make conditions
But enough, C cannot afford my present expenses, arid
they must be retrenched.
So saving, he left his wife in tears, and proceeded to
his business with a hsivy heart. He was beginning
to In>|*e that he might stiuzgle through without abso
lute failure, when the roiiveisation with which our
sketch opens took place.
• * • • •
•• Husband. I was in the store to see yon three times
this morning; you was out. and Mr. Brown seemed
in a good deal of jiertuibaUun counting money, look
ing over note; and memoraiidr, with a clouded brow,
nervous glances at the clock, and many wishes tint
you would return. Were my fears just? Are you
pressed for money ! ”
Mr. Gray co’oicvl—lie was. indeed pressed, but lie i
was unwilling to inform hi- wife of the fart.
“ You know, Francis,'’ continued Mn. Gray, •• il is
■u tie power of a wife to do moch towa ds relieving j
her b.jsbiod, if site is mads acquainted with htsembar I
raasoreuu in season. and you have always assured me, |
that I should not be left in ignorance of your affairs if
they became embarrassed. Do therefore 1< tme know
the trot it.’
“ In consequence of the absconding of Mr. Jones, I
have been obliged to get an extension on some of my
paper, ands mod little difficulty in doing so until
to-diy. Mrusra. Ctulmera ft Cos., held tny notes for
IflrOhO, winch they as.igoej to Mr. Ctpen. One of
them fei 52009 £*U doe to-day. Mr. Caprn fatly re
fused rr.e r ie extrusion I n.vsd.d, ad I found it rx
trem -Jv difficult to raise the monce. I, acceded, how
eve*. fit-lore the bank close J. Mr. C. formerly raatti
•ntal a go.nl ,fe; ,and friends!)for me, and I caunot
account fj, H;v change of fee hog now.” i
“I tii.nk ! can throw suite fight njsm the subject. J
mrjis'w, I act Mrs. ( qmi yeaterday in Mr. War
reu s st-re, j n.t r. tetrad that be eyed nty cloak a good j
deal; she >- [-utirnlw to condole tne on your l
besey lass, Imput; ,t a, >ubj r.ot break up your bust
• •'*• rofite •. I•• dw know what i eotd in reply, for
I thought tiieie might tv tr. ,ie in hr, niitnl then ahr
expressed ir f •■* no and > Jbt she, and of
e-u- .e - • t : “>t, and tbere
•.t e -*• ‘*• _• ‘ - -u - month
-s ‘ ’ ‘ ‘” rite might i
| Ir-a-e been prevented. Ms. Bias) has sought in vain
for velvet of the same shade as my cloak, and has
several times said she must have mine, and liegged me
,to give it up. I ahull do it now however, and no more
li-or of my extravagance—”
) ‘•No, Jane, a hundred dollars will not go far towards
paying my debts,”
“True, husband, but then it may rnuke thousands
difference in the feeling of your creditors towards you. |
Do you not recollect Mr. Capcn's remark about Mrs.
Osborne’s new shawl! 1 could not bear, indeed I
could not, to have it snecringly said I was squander
ing other people's money in fine clothes. Ido not
consider it an evidence of independence to dtsrcgsrd
the just censure of individuals or the public. A hun
dred dollar cloak needs a twenty-five dolisr hat. I
was thinking yesterday that I needed anew one, and
a collar, and a few other things to correspond with
mine. lum glad I went to the store to consult your
taste and thus had my eyes open to the real state of
your affairs.”
•• I should not think of purchasing such a cloak for
you now, Jane, it is true, but I do not think any one
can justly censure you rr me f>r having bought it,
when I couid afford it as well as not. Besides, your
disposing of it now would undoubtedly give rise to un
pleasant remarks.”
•■ I care but little about what people say, dearest,
win uldowh it is for your best interests. lam well
nwsie that the awful 1 they’ will say that rny pride is
coming down—that I “cannot hold my head quite ao
high,” and the like. But my pnde finds its greatest
gratification in the ability of doing what I feel to tie
light, without regard to the sayings of the world.
Vurniy might urge rnP to keep the duke, but inde
pendence says aril 1 indeed, my own comlort also ur
ges me, for my pride would indeed be hurt st the idea
ot wearing what you could not afford to purchase for
mo. Van miy depend upon it. husband, 1 shall part
with it with a light heart.”
Mr. Gray pressed his wife to his bosom, imprinting
a fervanl kiss upon her brow, liut said nothing; his
heart wss 100 full of admiration of the noble tiaits of
her character for speech, and as the servant entered to
inform them that tea was ready, the conversation
dropped.
And here we would pause a moment to reflect upon
the power for good or evil, which a wife possesses.
Few men, however high-minded and honorable, can
withstand the jibes of the woild. Its sneers possess a
power which they dread to meet, while woman—
strong, even in her weakliest, when she walks in the
fear of God, seeking only the approbation of her Ma
ker, her husband and her own heart—can look with
comparative indifference upon ttie wo Id’s smiles. But
if she looks without the pale of her own home-circle
for happiness, her influence is baneful indeed.
Many a man might be saved from ruin and from de
gradation. did all women exercise for good the power
which natu>e has placed in their hands. Men are more
often driven to extravagance, and thence to crime by
the murmur of a discontented wife, who longs for what
cannot of right be hers, than—we had almost said—by
any thing else. This subject, the power and the duty
I of woman, is drawing more and more attention in these
days of calamity and change, and we trust, that while
seeing the right road, the fair guides of their masters
will, herrafter, lead always towards honest simplicity,
in language, dress, and manners. But my rraders may
wish to know the results of the different courses of
thought and action pursued by Mrs. Osborne and Mrs.
Gray. l,et us then suppose two years to have past.
Mr. am! Mrs. Osborne occupy the same house, but
all appearance of comfort has fled. The furniture from
neglect has become almost spoileJ. Mrs. O. will not
| sell any of it, and as they can now keep but one servant
—and she declares she will not be a slave (or arty one
j dirt and disorder reign. About half after nine o’clock
’ Mrs. (). is amused ftom the perusal of a novel, by her
! husband’s knock. She rings a hand hell, and the tired
servant ascends the stairs to open the door, which when
1 alone, Mrs. O. always will have locked. He takes off
; liis hat, and, with a deep sigh, throws himself into a
| chair by the fire, and gazes abstractedly upon his wife.
He no lunger loves her, or looks upon her with pleas
ure, Frequent dissensions and the full exposure of
; her violence, selfishness and depravity have made him
sick at heart; he has nothing to hojie and all to fear—
his life wasted in the counting room of another, at a
salary which does not begin to satisfy the wants of
I one who has no mercy on her victim. Poor man—
but she has thrown down h r book, and we wilt let
her speak for herself
“ Well. Mr. Osborne, your paragon. Mrs. Gray, lias
’ got another cloak at last. I thought she meant to wear
that old ten dollar affair forever, and she always look
ed as happy as if she was dressed as fine as any body.
i I never was a > sick of any thing in my life, f>r you were
always cramming it down my throat as nn example
forme. Now I think she was a great fool. Mr. Gray
has gone nil as well as ever, and every body says bids
fair to be one of the richest men in the city, bo she
might as well have kept her beautiful velvet cloak as
not.”
| •• Perhaps, Charlotte, there was a greater effect pro
duced by the sale of that cloak than you are aware of.”
“ VVhat could it have been ! Did it hush up any
1 affair that would have hurt hitn I should like to know.
1 I always thought there wan some mystety about his
going on so well, after such a loss. Pray, what was
jit ? Why don’t you tell me!”
“ Because you will not give me an opportunity—
hut the cause and effect were both very different from
what you expect. It is well known that Mr. Gray
’ became embarrassed by the absconding of Junes, and
it was doubted if he could stand long. It seems that
Mrs. Stacy had wanted that clouk, (as she could not
get another like it) from the first time she saw it.
I fie two ladies met in Mr. Blanchards store, where
- Mr. Ca(ren was wailing for a hill to be made out.—
Mrs. Stacy commenced the conversation, while they
were making change for her, by saying to Mrs. Gray
that she was still trying to procure a cloak like hers.
1 •• I have concluded to let you have mine,” said Mrs.
Ciiay.“ if you are still inclined to purchase it.”
“O, most assuredly, I am. But I had given up all
j hopes of inducing you to part with it. I have said
nothing about it the tew last times we have met, for
1 saw you admired it as much as myself, and—and
1 *
“And my husband having liecomc embarrassrd you
was afraid of wounding my vanity by pressing the
subject, said Mrs. G., both ladies coloring deeply.
’ “ But,” she immediately continued, •• I appreciate the
1 delicacy of yout motive, dear madam ; and I am thank
ful that I am devoid of that vanity which would
prompt me to gratify my taste for rich dreases at the
j expense of mv husband's ease, I like the cloak very
| much, and should not have parted with it had Mr,
Gray tint met with his heavy loss, Ido so now, hjw
-1 ever, without a sigh.”
•• That’s a woman worth having,” said Mr. Capen
to me. •• Wlirn I saw her with that cloak on and
knew how much it co-t, I thought her as extravagant
j and thoughtless as almost all the rest ol the sex.—Yes,
yes, that a what I call trying to lie honest, and wearing j
one sown cb/thes. I'll risk Gray with such a wife!
He’s prudent, aid she's honest—a rare thing in a
I woman in these days—when dress is concerned.”
By this time his bill was ready and he left. I heard
to day that he immediately went to Mr. Gray and nf
j sered him the extension he had before refused, and did
i all in his power to assist hitn to recover; so that we j
Olay say that the sale of that cloak enabled him to le
-1 deem himself, while your splendid shawl, calling for !
eight bundled dollars, when I had hard work to get
| along, and making my creditors tearful of tny honesty, i
as I allowed you to drrss beyond oiy means, was one I
great cause ot my failing and being obliged to clerk it
for life. Had I sent tbit shawl back at onee ”
“ You nerd not be flinging that shawl at me ull the !
time. Fra sute it waa no more than other ladles of
my standing had; and ! think it is hard enough to
have to live as I do. while my sistera are all well mar- J
riisJ, without your being so mean as to twit me—” I
•• C harlotte, I do not twit you, but I think you must
allow that I have the hardest lot in our fallen sta'e
ami, I will aiy it nmv, it was your extravagance that
ruined me. I have heard it repeatedly said that I
would not get along, for I bad a wife who kept mv
nose to the grindstone, io tlut my friends dare not step 1
fu'waiu and help tue.
*• And you was mean enough tn let it lie said with
out (sweating it! Woman, as • am, I would have !
knocked the impudent pappy down. But it is no 1
such thing, I did not ruin you. It was your own want |
of seitoe, sod t s I had not bail independence enough to !
have hid ftiv own way, I should now have been withs
nut a dra in dr**, •„ my hack—and no thanks to you I
I have neither. Why don’t you do like my 1
IkUsei il- get iuio business aga n, I should like to
know ?”
•• I have no desite to lotion- m the footsteps of yo -’ J
tjflier. Thank Gud, though 1 am g bankrupt, yet ray i
creditors acknow ledge ne uii honest man, and would
aid me were I not tied to an extravagant wife.”
“ I sboulJ like to know air, how you would get
along with your | itiful salary il it was not for mg house ,
which you live in. Yes, sfr, my house, and ”
••Your boue, indeed! I should like to know
whose money paid for it!” i
“ My money, sir ! money that 1 had saved —except i
the thousand dollars mother raised Tor me on her house, i
und which she paid, and not you air.” 11
“ The cheated creditors of your father, woman, tell
a different story. They say your mother’s house was ■,
swindled out of them —and your money pray how
did you get two thousan I dollars !’’
“ 1 put by the money my father gave me, sir.—He
was not so niggardly as you have been, but provided
well for liis family at any rate! 1 always had money
when I was a girl.”
“ That your father gave you. and at the same time
refused to pay the bills for your silks and laces.’
“ liow dare you talk so of tny father, air, in my
men house.”
“ Your house, again! Would to God I had never
se-n you or your house—‘or that I had had the uiorsl
courage to have refused—even indirectly to receive the
stolen good*—ay, stolen, and the curse of God has
been upon it, as it always is upon illgolten wealth.
But I have had enough of it; it has been thrown in
my face from the first time I desired you to restrain
your Expenses in the least degree, and been the excuse
for every piece of extravagance you have been guilty
of—and they have not been few—they have ruined mo
body und soul!” arid lie brought his clenched fist
down upon (he table with such furce, that it shattered
every thing u|>on it.
“ Get out of my house, you ungrateful wretch ! get
out of my house, ] say—get out out of mv house —get
out—get out —got out!” screamed Mrs. 0., in a fienzy
of tage.
Poor Mr. Osborne could stand it no longer. He
hud been accustomed to leave his wife when the de
mon took possession of her, and he was more inclined
to do so now than ever. He had allowed his feelings
to carry him farther than ever before, anil induce him
to utlei what had long been in Ins heart. There would
now besot bun not even the liberty of submission. He
could not remain in the condition to which he found
himself reduced. With frenzy in his heart and brain,
he rushed from the house. Morning came, and he re
turned not —he never returned !
DOMESTIC.
From the Baltimore American.
VIRGINIA—THE TARIFF.
A voice loud and decided in favor of a Tariff for
Revenue, and a just protect on of the domestic indus
try of the country, has been uttered in the capita! of
the Old Dominiou. A large meeting of persons with- *
nut regard to political party, was held at the Exchange
in Richmond, on Monday evening last- The meeting
is said to have been unsurpassed for its respectability
and weight of character, and was organized by calling
AncnißiLii Plxxixvts, to tUeChair, and appointing
Joazru K. Axiikhsov, Sucre ary.
A Committee of nine, appointed for that purpose,
reported a memorial and resolutions, which were unan
imously adopted. The memorial is a very able docu
ment, and was prepared by Honour liauaxs, Esq.
The following are the resolutions :
Krselsed, as the opinion of this meeting. That the
Constitution contemplates, and the best interests of the
country require, that the revenue necessary for the
ordinary support ol the Federal Government should
be supplied by impost duties,
Itesolved, That in the assessment of duties they
should be so apportioned as to give a moderate but ad
equate encouragement to such domestic manufactures
as are of common and necessary use by the govern
s nient.and among the great body of the people, both in
i peace and war.
Resolved, That in such a system of revenue, the in
terests of the agricultural, as well as the manufacturing
classes are promoted—the former by the home maiket
it creates for the productions of the soil—the latter by
the steady prices anJ uniform demand that results for
the products of its capital and labor,
r Resolved, That the histsry of the last quarter of a
- century has shown that high price* ste not the nrcssa
t ry or even common results of high duties; nor ia it
the interest of any class that it should he so, the eon
i sumer being benefited by low prices—theproducra by
r a regular and steady maiket.
Resolved, That the history of the last nine years has
. shown that neither the government itself, nor any
■ one class of its citizens, are benefilted by a low rate
! of impost duties ; the condition of the former, anJ of
every class of the latter, having become worse as the
i duties become lower, until now, when both Uovern
i merit and people are alike un the brink of hank
t rnptey
Resolved, That a specie paying paper currency can,
- only exist under a discriminating tariff sufficiently
’ high to provide for the expenses of the entire govern
-1 monk
Resolved. That we have entire confidence in the
i zealous co-operation of our representative in Congress
i | in carry ing ont the views embraced in the forgoing rc-
I solutions.
Ward committees were appointed to obtain signa
tures to the memorial.
The Richmond Whig, speaking of this meeting says :
The meeting at the Exchange on Monday was the
most numerous we have seen assembled in this city
always famed for the difficulty of getting its eitizens to
gether—since ‘lie glorious days of the Log Cabin.
The memorial, ftom the chaste and cogent pen of Hold
en Rhodes, Esq. is just the papet for the occasion, and
present* the subject—the great subject, of national in
dependence and prosperity so strongly that even Lo
cofecoism must be staggered. We commend it to the
consideration of the people of Virginia. II they can
not come to the conclusion, that it is bettoi to cherish
I our own industry, with a view to national independ
ence. they cannot, as Agriculturalists, and in a dollar
i and-eent point of view, resist the argument, that it will
be better for them to have a portion of our population
engaged in Manufactories and consuming the products
of their soil—than to have the whole tilling the earth
and increasing the eompetion in agricultural products
—already carried to a rutiinous pitch.
From the Savon noli Republican.
gov. McDonald’s nullification.—the
DISTRICT SYSTEM.
We have already alluded to the nullification fetter of
Gov. McDonald to the Hon. Mark A. Coons. If
a Union Governor will nullify an act of Congress, it
would be advisible to have something like fair consli
tutional ground to rest upon. Take our city of Savan
nah, where we have all aorta of thinkers, from the most
straight-lared Slate Rights man to the ntosl reckless
soi disant demorral, who would go the death on Mr.
1 Van Buren’s schemes of conselidation or centrality.
and we risk nothing in sax ing that not one of them all
1 doubts the palpable constitutionality es the law estab
lishing the District System. What “sea-change” then
has come over our handsome Governor, that he has
thrown aside the AGgis with which he has been pro
tecting the Union, and grasped the Ithuriel spear of
John C. Calhoun ? Ferchance he ia merely trying his
| wings, licfore mounting into the blue ctnpyrran of
nullification, offering a species of iniatiory sactifice be
fnrn donning the official robes of liis new party. The
. Governor, we were told at Mtlledgevilfe, aspires to be
I U. 8 Senator, w hile Dr. Tomilaon Foit, the friend of
j a hard money, Bcntonian mini drop currency, the hard
money manager of the Central Bank, and therefore the
manager of five presses in acven in the State, and of
| inure than one half of the members of the Georgia
General Assembly, has the daring to extend his ambi
tious hand toward* the sceptre of the State sovereignty .
j The Governni then thinks that some of the most sub
tle theorists of the State Right* party, will come up to
his help, against so unwarrantable an invasion of State
Rights as the District System, am) that thus he will he
carried into power on the mountain waive of popular
ity. •• Divide el impera ” —“divide and ronquor” is hi*
doctrine. Now, il we have in our rank*, men so inefi
fahly stupid, such arrant dreamers st to be attracted by
a false glare, let them go. The sooner they are dyed
{ in democratic wool the soaner they are baptized in the
j Lethean waters that give to all saints and sinners the
: same permanent lute, and wash not in a moment
the plague spot* ami balancing opinion* of forty year*.
I the better lor the State Rights party. Like a silly moth
“Who yet inexperience and callow
First Anigenbi* wings in the Maze
And then tumbles into the tallow.”
Thoy will find their mistake when too late. The ignis
fatuous will s'tract only two or three drowsy specula- ‘
tors, whs have been lost in labyrinthine maxes off*llu
cien. We have only a few such left among us. They j
have already, many of them been democratized. The J
bone and sinew, the intelligence of the Harrison State
Rights’ Party of Georgia, reserves its strength for an ‘
onset, upon some thing ehe than an “ unreal mockery.” j
The undented democracy of course, must have all the
place* and the power, otherwise the triumph of de- ‘
mocrstic principles would be incomplete. What a sad ‘
reparation to the State and country it -would be to fill
a chair so neglected and undeivalued by the Hon. Al j
fred Cullibert, with a public man so irredeemably com
mitted to a policy of truckling subterfuges, as His Ex
cellency CHAnLAS MoDonalo! Why, hia Central
Bankism alone, ia enough to cast a shadow over and
vitiate his whole career.
Gov. McDonald cannot now retreut. If be could, 1
his obvious duty would be, not to issue his proclama
tion for an election for members of Congress. Then
the Legislature on assembling, would proceed according
to act of Congress, to district the State, and order an
rlcclion at some suitable time prior to the assembling
of the 28tli Congress. If this is not done, what will
be the consequence ! We shall send our general ticket
delegation to Congress, who can not am) will nut under
any contingency, he allowed to take their seat*. Their
election will be illegal,and tiieit claims to their seats
will not be Bust lined. Both parties in Georgia may,
if they chose, place themselves in a ridiculous posture,
but we shall indubitably, go through an election cam
paign for nothing, unless they mutually agree to de
sist froip taking llie field. Our Conventions have not
been fruitless, perhaps, tliouah their main object has
been frustrated by the act of Congress. We Whigs
thought that the Hen ate Bill would, in all probability,
pass wi'li the clause, excepting the 28th Congress,
fjoni the operation of the District System, and we could
not under any circumstances, take action on the pre
sumption of anew aystem going into operation.
There is much necessity of maturely|considering our
present position, and of avoiding the dilemma into
which we shall fall if we go blindly to work. The
general ticket members if elected, will receive their
commissions from the Governor, and then no new elec
tion can be had, until after the assembling of the
Congress, when their claims will be looked into by a
House of Representatives, which is declared by the
Constitution to be the judge of the qualification of its
members.
Scriousiy, we hope that the State of Georgia will not
make herself ridiculous and go unrepresented during,
perhaps, a whole long session of Congress when there
is no occasion for it.
1 am
The Philadelphia papers of yesterday contains the
following authentic statement of the late affair between
the Hon. T. F. Marshall and Col. J. VV. Winn:
Immediately after the trial of Mr. Edwaids, and the
publications consequent upon it, Lieut. Duke waited
upon Col. Webb on behalf of Mr. Marshall. Mr.
Charles Livings’on, in behalf of Colonel W’cbb, could
! not receivo the note, in the city of New York, but that
he would he in Wilmington, Del. with hia friend Ma
jor Morcll, on Friday the 24th inst. at 2 o’clock, P. M.
to receive any communication from Mr. Marshall, and
make the piecessary arrangements. The parties ac
cordingly met. settled terms, signed them, and separa
ted. Col. W'ehb,during the day and night, remained
undressed, and was occupied in taking the proper pre
cautions to avoid arrest. Mr. Marshall went with his
frirnda and slept at a anaall tavern in the vicinity of the
place of meeting.
About 3 o’clock A. M. the parties assembled at this
location, and within a few minutes of four o’clock the
carriages closely followed each other to the ground.—
Mr. Marshall had Dr. Carr of Baltimore, as his second,
Dr. Gibson, of Baltimore, (son of Prof. Gibson of this
city.) as his Surgeon, and Mr. Hunt, af Kentucky, and
his brother, as private triend*. Col. Webb had Ma
jor Moral! as his second. Dr. E. H. Tucker, of this
ci y, as his SufxCon, and J. Randall and George Bryan
Esq., as his private friends. No other persons were
by invitation on the ground. Taro gentlemen from
Philadelphia were incidentally present, and frnm thirty
to forty farmers, who had heard of it, a-ul were seen
coming down the roads from various quarters, to wit
ness the spectacle.
The groaud was an open field, a few yards from the
road, and just within the Delaware line. The seconds
measured the ground, (ten pace*) placed the mark*,
and proceeded to toss ( up far the word. Sortie differ,
ence took place as to whether the piece of coin was
fairly on the ground, when Mr. Marshall said to his
seeond, “give them the word.” Major Morel! replied,
••we will not take it as a gift.” “Yield it I” eaid Mr. M
Major Morell replied, “we will receive it as our right,
and in no other way.” This point waa conceded—the
parties tossed up a second time for the position, and
Col. Webb's friends again won it. Mr. Marshall had
a blue cloak which, with hia hat, he threw away; hia
dies* was a diab coat and pantaloons, aid a light vest.
Col. Webb had a dark |coat and vest, and light brown
pair of pantaloons. Neither party appeared to have
selected their dress with any reference to the security
of their persona.
The terms were then read aloud by Major Morell—
one of them contained a stipulation that the person* of
the parties should lie searched. Col, Webb's friends
assented to this article, but added in a note, waiving his
right to search the person of Mr. Marshall Dr. Carr
approached Col. Webb, and received from him his
watch, which waa placed on the left side, with a very
thin gold chain across the light h-east. Mr. Marshall
left his post, and tended to Major Morrell hia person
tor examination. Major Morrell peremptorily declined
it, and Mr M, then drew a small pooket reuib and
some other small articles from his pockets. Mr. M.
resumed hia place, Col. Webb not having moved.
The pistols were placed in the hands of the combat
ant*. The words were given “fire —one —two —three
—stop.” The parties fired so quickly upon the word
“fire,” that it seemed like the report of a single pistol.
Col. Webb’* ball fell in a direct line near the feet of
Mr. M. Mr. M’s ball struck the ground ten feet front
of Col. Webb, and about three feet to the right, both of
comae without effect.
Mr. M. instantaneously raised hia pistol in the air
and cried out, *• another shot!” Col. Webb remained
silent, but perfectly composed. The pistol* were loaded,
and the parties again fired. Mr. M’a ball passed the
right leg and went through the fleshy part of the left
leg behind and under the knee, inside—no other injury
exeept that it injured the tendons.
Col. Webb’s ball passed near the person of Mr. M.,
but ho escaped all injury. Col. Webh for a few sec
onds kept his position, but quickly fdUeroil in hia left
foot. Dr. Carr first pereeived that the fire had taken
effect, and jumped to assist Col. Webb: saying, “Ma- ‘
jor Morrell, assist your friend.” Col. Webb waa then
laid onl the ground. In a moment the blood gushed
out of his leg. He quickly relieved the bystandera by j
saying, “It ia only a flesh wound, it might have been
wese.”
Dr. Tucker dressed the wound, and acquitted him- 1
self avith great cleverness. Dr. Carr returned from
Mr. Marshall to Major Moriell, and said he was reques
ted by Mr. Marshall to inquire whether hia friend was
able to take another shot. Major Morrell instantly re
plied, “ask hia surgeon,’ Dr. Tucker said it was im -
possible. We have been informed, and believe, that
Mr. Marshall, upon returning to the tavern, expressed
his regret that he had made this request.
In a few minutes Col. Webb got up. assisted by his
friends, got over the fence, and the carriages returned
to the tavern from which they had started. Mr. M.
and his friends then drove to Marcus Hook; finding
they could not get on board the steamboat, they re
turned to the tavern on their way to Wilmimton. Mr.
Marshall inquired of Mr. Randall Mr. Webb’s situa
tion and the excitement appeared to he allayed. Col.
Webb and hia friends then proceeded to Philadelphia,
and at hall past 8 o'clock A. M. within four hours of
receiving his wound, he was safely lodged in the U. 8.
Hotel.
Both gentlemen exhibited to grest advantage, snd
in a most graphic manner, the customs and habits of
the different parts of the country in which they reside.
Mr. M, displayed that indomitable unconqueivd spirit
of the West, and Col. Webl waa throughout cool, de
liberate, and determined, showing that in the hour of
danger, he knew how to be true to himself.
It will naturally he inquired bow two gentlemen,
laboring in the same cause, and living apart fiora each
other, should be brought into colliaion. W# believe il
originated in the following manger.
When the proposition to repeal the bankrupt law
was lieiore Congress, Mr. M. took a conspicuoni part
for the repeal. Cos!. Webb, or some of bia editorial co
adjutors, made toms severe strictures upon the eouiae
of the members, and the influence ol Brifish gold upon
thi nj, We believe that no one ever auppoaed it was
seriously intended to assart that any of the members of I
Congress received a bribe, and feast of all M.r. M„ who
stands aC home without rebuke or reproach*
The pi cs-< K hostile to Col. Webb, ebpecidly that (if.
New V*ck. successfully fannod the liuinr anil end-av- •
ored to make the world believe Mr. M. was specially ■
designated. Mr. M. took an opportunity on the Hour 1
ol Congreta to comment with gicat severity upon the
editor of the Courier &. Enquirer. Efforts were mado
to explain the matter,but they proved abortive.
The trial of Col. Monroe Edwards renewed the dis
pute, and thcpublic are acquainted with the sequel uud .
result. We trust we shall hear no more of tlusdispute, I
•nd can hut acquiesce in the statement expressed by 1
one who was an eye witness of the veene, that public 1
opinion should put down file barbarous mode of adjust
ing disputes among men of honor and character.
Wc understand fmm thts friends of Col. Webb, who
witnessed hi* practice, that he has constantly declared
that he would nut take the fife of hia adversary, and
that he always fired low whenever he practised previ
ous to the meeting. Col. Webh, we bear, is doing
well, though it is possible lie will liinp t hitto when he
walks, from the effect of his wound.
The stupendous enteiprise of conducting the Crolon
river into the city of New York, by a closed acqucducl
of thirty three miles in extent, carried over lull and
valley—ia now brought to the point of completion.—
The entire work will cost the city of New York be
tween eleven and twelve millions of dollars, and its re
sults will show that the money haa been well s|>ent.
Wc find the following article on the subject in the New
York Coui ier of Monday :
Croton Water Works. —We understand that the
Water Commissioners, Messrs. Steven', Ward, King
and Birdsall, with Messrs. Jervis, Allen and French,
have just returned from their late examination of the
interior of the Croton Aqueduct proper.
They entered the Aqueduct at its mouth at the Cro
ton river and pursued the examination down to Sing
Sing, continuing their examination under ground to
the Harlem river, a distance of thirty-three miles;
w hich under ground examination employed them three
days, In the lowest cut. which is above Sing Sing,
they were 70 feet below the surface of the earth ; und
al the Mill liver embankment they were 85 feet above
the surface of the earth below,
The temperature wa* found to be from 53 to 55 de
grees. At the greatest depths at which tbe Aqueduct
is constructed (not unfrequent!y through solid tuck)
springs have frequently forced their way into the
works. These, to some extent it has been found more
convenient to permit to flow into the work than to ex’
elude.
The general condition of the work they found good,
and the small checks and some openings left to draw
; the water while the last finish wag being put upon the
work have been directed to tie dosed up.
The line of Aqueduct and the Dam w ill both bv ao
fir completed a* to introduce the water into the city
by the time proposed by the Commissioners—oh the
4th of July.
The pipes across the Harlem river are already laid,
and have been filled with water to prove their tightness
and ability to resist the bead, which is about 120 feet.
11l both respects the proof was satisfactory.
In this great work our citizens will aoon have a sure
ty against such awful calamities as befeUbeir. in 1835
and the late conflagration at Hamburgh. We wish
’ we could add that the woik in the city uudei tne di
| rection of the corporation was in such a state of for
wardness that our citizens could be furnished w ilh Ibis
water as a beverage and for culinary purposes as soon
as it will be introduced into the city by the Water
Commissioners.
THE CROTOIT AQUEDUCT.
This stupendous undertaking—a work equalling in
difficulty, magnitude andextent any similar one of an
cient times—is on the point of completion, at a cost to
the city of New York, of about twelve millions of dol
lars. The water waa let into the aqueduct l ist week
for the whole distance of folly milt s—the Commission
ers accompanying the water in its flow downwmds,
sometimes in their barge, and sometimes on the sur
face of the aqueduct above. The object or this work,
ns our readers generally are aware, is to afford an ahun
tant supply ot pure, wholesome water to the city of
New York, and how peifectly this will be accomplished
may be known from the perusal of the following de
scription of the aqueduct, copied from the New York
Tribune t
The main trunk consists of aa immense mas, of ma
sonry, six feet and a half wide, nine feet high, and forty
mile* long, formed of walls three feet thick, cemented
into solid rock. But this water channel, gigantic as it
ia, is tar from being all the work. The dam across the
Croton, which retains the water in a grand reservoir, is
a mound afeaith and masonary, forty feet high and
seventy feet wide at the bottom, and has connected
with it many complicated but jierfect contrivances to
enable the engineer to have complete control over the
mighty mass of water. The river, thus thrown hack
toward its source, will form a lake of five hundred
■errs, which Will retain a supply for emergencies of
some thousand millions of gallou*, and also offer, a*
a collateral advantage, many picturesque sites foi coun
try seats upon the woody points which will jut out
into its smooth basin.
A tunnel leads the water from this rpaervoir into the
Aqueduct, and eleven more of these subterraneous pas
sages occur before reaching Harlem River, having an
nggtfgat® length of seven eights of a mile, and many
of them being cut through the solid rock. Al inter
vals of a mile, ventilator* are constructed in the form
of towers of white marble, which give to'ihe water that
’ exposure to the atmoapheir without which it becomes
vapid and insipid ; and these dazzling tuirr.s mark out
the line of the Aqueduct to the passengeis upon the
’ Hudsoni
The streams which intersect the line of the structure
are conveyed under it in stone culverts, the extremities
of which afford the engineers an opportunity of dis
playing their architectural taste. Sing-Sing Creek,
with its deep ravine, is ciossed by a bridge of a single
elliptical arch of eighty-eight feet span, and a hundred
feel above the stream, its unusually perfect workman
ship was proved by its having settled but one inch after
the centres were removed. The view of it* massive
grsce from the narrow valley beneath is one of the ‘
’ most striking points upon the line. Sleepy Hollow,
well known to the readers of imaginative lore, is
j spanned hy a series of graceful etches.
The Bridge crossing Harlem River has Uen t lhe sub
ject of much controversy The admirers of tnsgnifi
| cent symmetry and perfection, and those interested in
preserving the navigation of that stream, have wsimly !
! advocated the erection of a bridge, over which the wa- ■
’ ter might pass upon its tegular level; while the friends
! of moro measured economy recommended a lower and
cheaper structure, to which pipes should descend and
| rise therefrom after the manner of an inverted syphon.
The plan finally adopted is that of a high bridge, but
’ still with its surface ten feet below the usual grade,
which falls fourteen inches to the mile.
It ia a quarter of a mile long, one hundred and six*
. teen f et above high water, and its estimated cost ex
ceeds .hree quarters of s million. Across this the wa
ter is conveyed in huge iron pipes, protected from the
frost by a covering of earfh, four feet daep. Near Man
hattanville is a tunnel, a quarter of a mile long, through
the hill at that place; and its valley ia crossed by pipes
descending one bundled and five feet. Clendenning 1
Valley is passed at an elevation of foity feet, slid arches ‘
of appropriate size, upon the line* of the atieata, leave j
symmetrical carriage ways and foot paths.
We paid a brief visit yesterday to tbe two great Re
servoirs of this stupendous aqueduct. The Receiving
Reservoir—at Yorkville, thirty-eight miles from the:
dam at Croton river—is in two divisions, both covering
t space of thiily-fivc acres, capable of containing one ;
bundled and sixty millions of gallon*. It is enclosed
by granite walls of solid masonry, roughly finished.
The bottom of the basin is the natural soil.
The Distributing Reservoir—at Murry’s Hill in
Forty-Second street is a much finer and more expensive
work. It is nearly square, and covers an area of about
five acres. The hot om is made of puddled elay, as
smooth, hard and water-tight as murble itaelf. This
area is 440 fyel square at the base, snd i* divided in the
centra by a wall of granite 10 feet thick at the bottom
und 4at the top. It is surrounded by a wall, also of
granite, composed of thlee distinct columns of solid
mason work. The outer column is five feeMhick; the
second six, and the third or inner one a lining of gran
ite, about fifteen inches in depth, placed upon a con
crete masonry above 30 feet thick at tke base.
From the outside to the middle wall—the thickness
of neither included—the distance ia 14 feet; and from
the extreme of the outer wall to the inner angle of the
third, is 60 feet—the three walls uniting st the top.—
At a distance of ten feet from each other are thick croaa
walla with aolid arches, thus binding thejwhole info one
solid, imperishable mass. From the top of themorth
east comics to the level of the afreet tlio distance is 56
fet. The depth of the Reservoir is 40 feet
will contain wulq. to the depth es 3C feet or n'v. ‘ V
twemy-iwo millions of gallons-., computed .
day. since by J ran Lkm wick. Jr„ one of the .1
neers employed on the work. n ®'’
At the East end of the division wall a well hs* he
u,.k to ihe depth of fifty feet, communicating with”
sower below, and forming a wa*te-wier so, , *
lof the surplus iqater, when it rises in l|„. r ',
[above the height of thirty.,,* feel. At the bittt'omr
| lhe *'*>’ is >“'6 Dloc-k of granite weighing evu-nZ “
I and, still farther to break tbe fall o( t | ie ov , |fl
stream, and to prevent it from wearing away the . S
water to the depth of six feet rest* permanently .tra’
bottom. From the well the waste Wale, j, Con ‘
by a sewer nearly a mile lo the North River. X U
The style of architecture is Egyptian— well fi tte( i h
its heavy and imposing character for a work of , h
magnitude. The summit of the wall* around the
area, i* flagged and will he provided w ith a heavy
railing—forming a beautiful and sightly ,„ om L'T
twenty feet in width. The io,mediate* y
around the work have been purchased by the Corner
lion to protect it from encroachments. “ The receivin’
and discharging pipes are Iwo in number—each aba “
three feet in diameter. • ul
tl is now hearly four years since the work wss fi lst
commenced; snd during the working son*,,, on
average, about 400 men have been ronstanlly cmp| ow i
upon it. besides great numbers employed in the wii'o.
season in bringing materials, boring ihe whole ti m
no lives have been lost by accidents. Two men h,d
their legs broken by a downfall of the banks-sml thi,
is Ihe extent of the injuries that have bean mutairiHl
rlic whole cost will not be far from £500,000.
Ludicrous One Sultry afternoon in the mom h
of June, while the cniigrrgnled wisdom ofNewHanip
shire weie assembled in the Capitol, an honest mem
her of the House who had been leluetanlly summoned
to the scene of bis duties from Ihe dinner table, where
he bod been freely indulging, stretched himself out on
one of the sect* and was quietly enjoying a nap, when
one of the “ sovreign people,” who had seated himself
in the gallery lo overlook his servants, happened to
observe the aforesaid member in his recUmhent posit n„
and without eCn inony bawled out—•• Hallo, mieu-r
You man thul’a napping it oh the bench there—tke’
Slate don’t piv you two dollar, a day tor sleeping I
can tell ye. So wake up—wake Op ?” By the time
the above speech, which was delivered in no oidimtry
tone of voice, was concluded, the House wa* in a ror
—the sleeper arose, frightened half out Ofki* wit*—
and the Speaker ordered the gulleries to be cleared.—
N. Y. Paper.
u I'hjt body (Congress) li3, no more right todo so,
(district the States) than It has to re-model the Con
stitution of Georgia.” —Mucon Telegraph
Well, the thing’* settled now, beyond all dispute.
IWc thought it had. Mr. Madison thought so—Mr,
Jefferson thought so—Clay, Berrien, Preston, and n
good many others—Benton, wc believe—Wright and
Buchanan certainly, among them, thought that Con
gress bad tbe power to “prescribe the lime and mar.n.r
of holding elections for member* ot Congiess” Bat
all of us arc mistaken—the Editor of the Telegraph
certainly knows what the Constitution is—and the
American Senate and House of Representative* might
have had sense enough to consult hiut and Gov. Mc-
Donald before they did such a thing. The-e sen*efe*>
Congress in n are always getting themselves into trouble
hy not consulting the wise men of the earth before they
go into measures. Aud now they have done it. There'*
Chailcy McDonald, and the Maeon Telegraph that
never were even asked their opinions about the consti
tutionality if the district system—and don't vou see,
i you great owl-beaded rascals, what you s-e bringing
us to? What think ye will become of us here in
Georgia? Wont we be tcetoUlly ramsqualuluted—
nullified—miuce-mcated, and cooked up into apple
1 dumplings, on account of your folly ? Oh I thi: our
ruler* would le .rn to ask wisdom, before they bring
ruin and desolation upon us* - Columbus Enquirer.
S'gnijicant “ Affinities .”—The A boll 1 ion randidt e
I for Lieutenant Governor of Ve moot, E. D Barber,
and the LoColocn candidate lor the same office is the
aume E, D. Barber ! and the Iwo interesting ami ini
iable parties seem lo lie pulling together very loiiugly.
But, il the Locofoco journals in this latitude are ip Ire
| believed, there is no aucli animal in existence as a L,-
cifoco Abolitionist. The Locos are all friends of the
| South I—•• Northern men with Southern feelings!”
1 he N. Y. Courier says il has just opened one ol tbe
: Lucifer jo .mala of Vermont, which is exceedingly gra
i cious toward- Mr. Barber, the nomiuep of the Auialga
i mationist*, and expresses the hope that he nmy beat
i the Whigs. Speaking of his Abolition friend-, the
I Locofoco journal says; “Without them he cannot
hope, nor, indeed, does he wish lo obta il office. Lrt
the ball roll onward.” Now this is the precious party
that professes, here in Ihe South, lo be perfectly hor
ror smitten at the very name of abolition, and actually
charges the Whigs with being the Abolition party!
The Courier asks the Editor of the Richmond Enqui
rer, if he will be kind enough to look a little to this
matter ! Or will he wait tilt tbe Abolition Lieutenint
Governor is elected in Vermont, und then claim it s
a democratic triumph—denying, as he does foi Durr,
that he it an Abolitionist ?
The questions of the Cour ei will apply to some ol
our own near neighbors who, alo. had better bare on
eye out for this Northern branch of the uni'eraal de
mocracy. Such •* party affinities” must lie any thing
but pleasant.— Mobile Advertiser and Chronicle.
Sixtcxt L. SoiTflinv, the beloved and tespceln)
Senator from the State of New Jersey, and late Presi
dent of the body of which he had long been a dialrn
| guished ornament is no more. Our foreboding* of the
| fatal terminal ion of the illnes- under w hich be tied lung
suffered have been realized. He died at Fredericksburg,
in Virginia, in the luulst of his friends, and sunoueded
by all the members of his family, on Sunday last, si
about 10 o’clock in tbe morning,
i We shall notdim a the deserved eulogy bestowed upon
, his memory in the annunciation to the Senate of their
loss, by *ny attempt on our own part to do justice io
the various merits of the deceased. He was, to our
personal knowledge, with few equals in all tbe rela
tions of Son, Husband, and Father; and he wits, of all
I things, as true a’Fiiend asevrr breathed. Aaaritrxeo
, be ever enjoyed the highest estimation ; and hia abili
dies are beat proved by the elevated alatioiis to which
- they have induced his fellow cttiz na successively 10
I call him.
The age of Mr. Potithard wa* about_s6 years. Ho
must have been generally thought to lie much older,
young (for his country) did lie attain high reputation,
and *o early did that reputation bring him into the
Public Council*. He waa chosen lo be Chief Jaatisa
of his own Stale as early at at twrnty-eightyeara of
age. He became a Senator of the United States in iba
year 1821 ; and in the year 1823 he wua appointed!’.’
President Monroe to Ihe highly responsible post of Sec
retary of the Navy, the duties of which office h# dve
chjiged w ith pre-eminent ability up to the close of tne
Administration of Mr. Adam*. In he year 1833 he
i again took bis seat as a Senator front- hia native
, and baa ever since, up to the moment of his last illncw,
faithfully discharged Ihe duties of that honorable ttf
J lion.— Nationial Intelligencer.
Mat. Ewing, alias MisaHiXtaiN.theaclresa, a' lo
stabbed her husband in the Theatre at Mobile, was
■ short time since apprehended in that city, “heie
\ had kept herself secreted ever since her sudden di“’ip
i pesrance. Kiom the Advertiser we leatn that drega-e
herself up to the authorities, and on Tuesday win fI
■ mined before Judge Bragg. Two of the best l"’' e
aians of the city testified that the wound inflii ted ’.’ 1,1
prisoner on the body of the deceased was not suffice 1 ’
of itaelf to have produced death. The result ol •h*
umination was, the committal of the pi ieoner >or
t the next term of theCirruit Court, but was*
ted to bail in tbe aum of £3,000. — Alabama Tim •
Stage Coaches in the Desert. — The London pep* 1 ’
announce by advertisement, Ihe ontabliehmem ,
stage-coach communication between Cairo and ■ “
Hare, says the Londob Atheneaum, is lhem’ r ’
civilization. But a few years nince, il waa “Pl‘ f>
that camels or dromedaries, fejin their P owcro f " am |
ing thirst, could alone traverse thoee arid plait
penetrate the solitude of the desert. Now W 1
hotels established at regular interval*, ll h r *
horses, and a coach running, which perfin" l * 1 ‘' na . K .
ncy regularly in about eighteen houre. 7he an
ment at the close of the advertisement is ~ m j cwr i it
“Refreshments and provision* supplied i l “®
very moderate charges.”